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Environmental Policy, Firm Location, And Product Differentiation: The Role of Green Preferences and Inter-firm Pollution
Kuhn, Michael - 1997
Endogenous firm location is analyzed in a discrete two-region-two-firm model of product differentiation. In a non-cooperative game, two regional governments first decide on the imposition (or lifting) of domestic production standards; firms then choose technology (clean or polluting), location...
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Capacity Choice under Uncertainty with Product Differentiation
Behrens, Christiaan; Lijesen, Mark - 2012
This article analyses the capacity-then-price game for a duopoly market. We add to the literature by explicitly taking product differentiation into account. We study the impact of capacity costs, demand uncertainty, and vertical and horizontal product differentiation on equilibrium capacities,...
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Consumer Loss Aversion and the Intensity of Competition
Karle, Heiko; Peitz, Martin - 2010
Consider a differentiated product market in which all consumers are fully informed about match value and price at the time they make their purchasing decision. Initially, consumers become informed about the prices of all products in the market but do not know the match values. Some consumers...
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Advertising in the U.S. Personal Computer Industry
Goeree, Michelle S. - 2004
Traditional models of consumer choice assume consumers are aware of all products for sale. This assumption is questionable, especially when applied to markets characterized by a high degree of change, such as the personal computer (PC) industry. I present an empirical discrete-choice model of...
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Verti-zontal differentiation in monopolistic competition
Di Comite, Francesco; Thisse, Jacques-François; … - 2011
The recent availability of trade data at a firm-product-country level calls for a new generation of models able to exploit the large variability detected across observations. By developing a model of monopolistic competition in which varieties enter preferences non-symmetrically, we show how...
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The Economics of Warm Glow: A Note on Consumer's Behavior and Public Policy Implications
Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Onofri, Laura - 2004
The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...
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The Effect of Entertainment in Newspaper and Television News Coverage
Greiner, Tanja - 2010
induces a negative effect on the profits of both media outlets, and increases price competition. Furthermore, the newspaper … content, as the television channel gains market shares at the expense of the newspaper. …
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Kundenintegration bei Finanzdienstleistungen
Enke, Margit; Poznanski, Steffi - 2005
Zur Erstellung maßgeschneiderter Dienstleistungen ist die Mitwirkung des Kunden (Kundenintegration) unerlässlich. Dem … Management von Kundenintegration auf Anbieterseite wird jedoch in der Praxis zu wenig Bedeutung beigemessen. Sie hat aber … fundmentalen Einfluss auf die Effizienz und Effektivität der Leistungserstellung. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt Kundenintegration …
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Informationstransparenz als Chance am Beispiel von Kundenrezensionen in der Automobilindustrie
Schlimbach, Ricarda; Schnell, Lukas; Asghari, Reza - In: HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 58 (2020) 2, pp. 343-358
Die Informationstransparenz ist zum Spiegelbild der Offenheit von Unternehmen geworden. Ein Beispiel dafür ist die Erfassung und Veröffentlichung von Kundenrezensionen im Internet. Ihre Bedeutung nimmt vor dem Hintergrund der Verlagerung von Kaufentscheidungsprozessen vom stationären Handel...
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International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation
Lutz, Stefan - 2003
I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Three alternative standard setting arrangements are...
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